You Make Your Investment Decisions, You Give Me Too Many Windowes

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This week's episode is all about how the startax fund makes its investment decisions. We'll get to that in segment R, when we get back. Notion will give you fifty per cent off their team plan for your first year by going to notion dot com. You can join slack this week and start up stock om slash slack. Use Slash twist so people know they came from the pod. The homoral nature of it led more people to engage in a type of photography that maybe was a little more lucy goosey,. A little more t handed. And i think what people didn't understand is that demographic is extremely valuable....

1:00 Jason intros Power of Accelerators Episode 2!
3:07 Jason intros StartX Founder Cameron Teitelman: What is StartX, how do they invest, when and how was it started?
6:54 How does StartX exist? Are they profitable?
8:43 Why would a growth stage founder join StartX?
13:28 What is the process for selecting founders/companies for StartX? What is unique about Stanford students?
16:28 Difference between arrogance and confidence, StartX's "No A**hole" rule, Cohort size
20:47 What does StartX look for in founders, what questions are asked in interviews & what preferences do they have regarding co-founders
27:04 How do VCs look at StartX? What are their demo days like?
31:54 Thoughts on YC's demo day & how to run a demo day process
41:16 Cameron on hacking his way into VC, new StartX funds, thesis on successful founders & peer-support groups
45:58 Stories about getting cut out of a deal
48:09 What StartX's portfolio signaling tells them about successful founders, importance of time management
51:59 Steve Blank's theory of customer development, top portfolio companies